The Operation
Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Website is serving up a new video showing off
Skira, the 220 square kilometer island that will serve as a battlefield in the
upcoming military shooter. The clip is mirrored on
ActionTrip and
Gamer's Hell. Also,
though the bottom of the page with the video still says "coming in summer 2009
for major console platforms and PC," the clip reveals a delay, as it concludes
saying "Autumn 2009."

I believe they should of made a BF3 style of gameplay to capture the BF community, Bf2 sold 17.5million copies, but instead theyve gone for plain open fields zzzzzz...

I don't want battlefield style gameplay but I wouldn't object to there being a proper squad system with updated voip settings - one where the enemy can hear you and you need to be near another player to be heard, there's already a software package that does this called mumble.

I think they are finding out exactly how hard it is to produce a realistic military simulation. I hope that one day we will see gameplay and graphics as seen in their first two cinematics released. The quality of the smoke and depth of space are two items missing from even ARMAII, the obvious gold-standard to beat.

I am keeping my fingers crossed, and I will be surprised if their first game can surpass ARMAII. As a gamer, I hope it does!

Some pretty bad motion tracks when adding their sinage graphics. They should have used BOUJOU or added those to the textures in the first place.

It looks like in-game footage. The smoke trail and Quake-type light on the missile hitting the BMP is a giveaway. Also, the landscape seems to suffer from a very short LOD. It's hard to really pin this down with the fast-forward video editing.